Jack Catterall (29-1, 13 KOs) and Regis Prograis (29-2, 24 KOs) each weighed in efficiently at Friday’s weigh-in and are set to fulfill for his or her 12-round headliner this Saturday, October twenty sixth. The 2 Matchroom Boxing-promoted mild welterweights will likely be competing with the winner to problem for the IBF 140-lb title in 2025. Saturday’s occasion will likely be proven stay on DAZN from the Co-op Stay in Manchester.
Weights:
– Jack Catterall – 140lbs
– Regis Prograis – 139.7lbs
Catterall has the house nation benefit on this combat, however that will not assist him as a result of the previous WBA and WBC mild welterweight champion Prograis is amped up about preventing on the highway. He likes this quite a bit higher than competing in his residence nation, the U.S., which isn’t shocking as a result of he’s not achieved properly currently there.
Prograis misplaced to Devin Haney on December ninth final yr, and earlier than that, he edged Danielito Zorrilla by a 12-round break up choice on June seventeenth, 2023, in New Orleans. Many boxing followers now imagine that Prograis is over the hill at 35 and never the fighter he was throughout his greatest years.
Prograis could not have to be at his greatest to defeat Catterall as a result of this man is just not thought-about an elite-level fighter. Certainly, he could also be extra domestic-level than true world-class. We all know that Catterall has been toiling away for 12 years as knowledgeable, and his solely win over a top-tier fighter was Josh Taylor.
“Sure, I do agree with it. I simply don’t assume he’s on my degree. He fought Josh Taylor twice. I solely fought him as soon as. There’s nothing on his resume. In case you take a look at his and take a look at mine, it’s nothing,” stated Regis Prograis to Ariel Helwani’s channel about Jack Catterall not being a world-class fighter.
The one names on Catterall’s resume that stand out are Josh Taylor and Jorge Linares. Each fighters had numerous ring put on by the point Catterall fought them and had been nowhere close to their high kind. Catterall will likely be flying blind on this combat in opposition to Prograis, hoping that he can keep away from getting clipped by one in every of his greatest pictures.
In Catterall’s latest win over Taylor, he struggled with the strain and the heavy pictures he was getting hit with, and received a questionable 12-round unanimous choice earlier this yr on Might twenty fifth.
“I don’t really feel he’s a world-class fighter, and he’s not on my degree. That’s what I’m going to go on the market and show. I took it instantly as a result of Jack is very rated,” stated Prograis, agreeing instantly when the combat in opposition to Prograis was provided to him.
It’s going to be fascinating to see how properly Catterall does in opposition to Prograis as a result of he’s not thought-about to be on the extent of Devin Haney, who beat Regis by a large choice. Haney is clearly not an amazing fighter, as we found in his combat in opposition to Ryan Garcia final April.
“He didn’t wish to combat me. He needed to combat Teofimo Lopez over me. An excessive amount of hazard,” stated Prograis, explaining why Catterall didn’t wish to combat him. “I’m nonetheless a two-time world champion. In case you take Josh Taylor off his resume, it’s nothing.
“No, I didn’t assume he was damage. He didn’t wish to combat, and he didn’t wish to combat from the start. Matchroom pressured his hand. They made him take the combat. They didn’t make me take the combat. I stated, ‘Sure’ twice already. After the Josh Taylor combat, he needed to go straight right into a world title combat, however they made him combat me.
“At first, I believed, ‘Man, they’re making an attempt to mess over me, making an attempt to make me go to Manchester. They’re making an attempt to make me combat him in his hometown,’ however I really like this higher,” stated Prograis.
